Accel World Review

Overall rating 5.5/10 - Mixture of good and bad things.

Possibly watchable, has interesting but flawed premise.

Unlike some other shows that get 5 or 6 from me, this one is not plain average, but rather a conflicting combination of things I love and hate.

At times I think it is awesome, the other times I want to drop. I watched it a while ago and might not remember everything well.

Main male protagonist is on Shinji level hard to relate. I cannot understand self-hating, but this character has a lot of it. 

Also why pick pig avatar when you can be anything awesome online. I pick awesome characters such Ragnarok Online Assassin here, Leluoch or Gilgamesh in other places. Other times I used Sasuke, Alukard, Kain from Legacy of Kain, Prince from Prince of Persia. In WoW I played as OP Warlock and decently powered Warrior instead of pathetically weak Paladin or Mage.

One good thing is that other characters treat him more or less well, as far as I remember.

Main female character is actually rather nice. I do not like snow or princesses, however I do like girls dressed in black as well as thongs, stockings, garterbelts. Because of that I will call her Kuro-chan. They sometimes depict her with butterfly wings which looks nice.

Kuro-chan reminds me of someone I know and has plenty of good and likable qualities. She is almost perfect, there was something off but I do not remember what exactly. If I remember correctly, she is too controlling of the main character, and I do not like that in women.

There is another female in the story, of whom I also have a conflicting opinion. I wish she could just drop thusndere and be dandere instead. I like doing what I want with girls, so she got that one right.

Story is also mixed. Overall premise is rather dubious: fight to the last man standing until some truth from developer of Accel World is revealed. It does piques curiosity but does not make you invested in the cause. Here I do not share Kuro-chan's enthusiasm to uncover author's intentions. Individual battles however is rather interesting.